WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS

WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Karen Bergreen, Daniel R. Alonso

Published: October 27, 2002

Karen Bergreen, the daughter of Barbara and Bernard Bergreen of Manhattan, is to be married today to Daniel R. Alonso, the son of Dr. M. Lita Alonso of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Dr. Daniel R. Alonso of Doha, Qatar. Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in White Plains is to officiate at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan.

Ms. Bergreen, who will keep her name, is a stand-up comic who appears at the Comic Strip, Caroline's Comedy Club and other spots in Manhattan. Formerly a lawyer, she graduated from Harvard and received a law degree from the University of Minnesota.

The bride's father is the chief executive of the Gilman Investment Company, a private investment firm in Manhattan, and the founder of the law offices of Bernard D. Bergreen, also in Manhattan. Her mother owned Portantina, a boutique that was in Manhattan.

Mr. Alonso works in Brooklyn as an assistant United States attorney and deputy chief of special prosecutions for the Eastern District of New York. He graduated from Cornell and New York University Law School. His mother is an associate professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an associate attending pathologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His father is the dean of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.